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Faculty Colloquium: Franita Tolson

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Date and Time

Friday, May 4, 2018 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Location

Warren Hall, Faculty Reading Room

5998 Alcala ParkSan Diego,
CA92110

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Franita Tolson joined USC Gould School of Law in June 2017. Professor Tolson’s scholarship and teaching are focused on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, campaign finance reform, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Her forthcoming book, A Promise Unfulfilled: Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of the Right to Vote, will be published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.

Her research also has appeared in leading law reviews including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. She has written or appeared as a commentator for various mass media outlets including The Huffington Post, Reuters, and Bloomberg Law.

Prior to joining the USC Gould faculty, Professor Tolson was the Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights at Florida State University College of Law. Tolson was also a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law.

Before entering academia, she clerked for the Hon. Ann Claire Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Hon. Ruben Castillo of the Northern District of Illinois.

Tolson is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and won the Thomas Mulroy Prize for Oral Advocacy in the Hinton Moot Court Competition.

Works in ProgressThe Lure of Federalism in Election Law DoctrineOriginalism and the Right to VoteBooksA Promise Unfulfilled: Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of the Right to Vote, under contract (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018).